I could have finished it if I had had a few more hours; I spent at least 6 hours doing homework yesterday.
When I got back to the shelter, I was harassed by a female employee of the shelter. This morning, I was harassed by a female guest of the shelter. Both of them have histories of bullying me.
It takes time to deal with and document incidents like those. It also is upsetting and mentally unsettling. I need my time and my intelligence for school. I could not have worked any harder at school for these first few weeks than I did; I could not have done better than I did.
Why should I have to get low As and high Bs in school when I could be getting straight As if I weren't being abused every day?
It's difficult to be in school or working when you're living in a shelter, even when you're not being abused at and outside of the shelter every day. Today, there was another school assignment that I could have done better on than I did if I hadn't had to spend time this afternoon getting clean shirts from my storage unit in Quincy. I had to put some of my clothes in that unit when I got all my books for school; I can't get everything into the high-school-type locker that every guest who is fortunate enough to have a locker at all has to put her things in at the end of every day.
Copyright L. Kochman, February 6, 2016 @ 5:59 p.m.
